Latest content added for UNT Digital Library Partner: UNT Music Libraryhttp://digital.library.unt.edu/explore/partners/UNTML/browse/?fq=str_year:1792&fq=untl_decade:1790-17992010-03-15T16:06:49-05:00UNT LibrariesThis is a custom feed for browsing UNT Digital Library Partner: UNT Music LibrarySaul : a sacred oratorio, in score2010-03-15T16:06:49-05:00http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc11802/<p><a href="http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc11802/"><img alt="Saul : a sacred oratorio, in score" title="Saul : a sacred oratorio, in score" src="http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc11802/thumbnail/"/></a></p><p>This is ca. 1792 musical score of Saul, a sacred oratorio by Handel composed in 1738 to the English text by Charles Jennens.
The composition year 1740 given in the t.p. might refer to a performance of the oratorio that took place that year.
The performance forces include: vocal soloists (SATB), mixed chorus, and orchestra (2 oboes, bassoon, trombones (3), horns (2), strings (violin, viola, violoncello, bass), timpani, organ, harp and continuo).
A content index with the incipits of recitatives and arias appears on a separate page at the end of the score.</p>